Handbook on Securing Cyber-Physical Critical Infrastructure

Chapter 28

Security and Robustness in the Internet Infrastructure

Krishna Kant, Casey Deccio

28.1 Introduction

The integrity of networking infrastructure is crucial in ensuring that the core network services involved in providing communication functionality work reliably, effectively, and without side effects. Some of the core networking services include resource addressing, packet switching/routing, packet classification/filtering, name resolution, end-to-end transport, and network Quality of Service (QoS) management. There are numerous protocols that provide these and related functionalities, and nearly all of them grew up in an environment where security was not a significant concern. Consequently, all such protocols – from discovery of the ...